It's been a year since Castor's attack, and the world seems like a pretty lonely place for a fifteen-year-old werewolf. He's starting to think that he's completely alone in the universe, and there's no place for someone like him, even at Hogwarts, where everyone finds a place. After all, who could love a face like his?

Castor Black, the only flesh-and-blood son of the infamous Sirius Black, is hurt, bad. He might even be dying. But he wants more than anything in the world to live, to save his father from the Dementor's Kiss. The question is, will anyone save him first? Or will he just disintegrate into the vast, black nothingness of Death, with nothing to show for his father's innocence?